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- June 30
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- NASA delays launch of next Mars rover to no earlier than July 30
- Firefly Aerospace uses rocket engine to light birthday candles in epic cake video
- Hubble Space Telescope to feature on American Innovation $1 coin
- SpaceX launches advanced GPS satellite for US Space Force, sticks rocket landing
- Asteroid impact, not volcanic activity, killed the dinosaurs, study finds
- 'Asteroid Hunters' comes to IMAX this fall. See the trailer here (exclusive video)
- SpaceX is launching an advanced GPS satellite for the US Space Force today. Here's how to watch.
- Celebrate Asteroid Day 2020 with live talks about planetary defense
- Steampunk space exploration? Icy moon robot could hop around on steam power.
- Giant star pulls off vanishing act. Did it become a black hole or was it all an illusion?
- Boeing gives Starliner crew capsule's parachutes a workout in drop test (video)
- June 29
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- SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule looked 'pretty awesome' in spacewalk, astronaut says
- A tiny Chinese satellite spotted the 2019 total solar eclipse from the moon
- To safely explore the solar system and beyond, spaceships need to go faster—nuclear-powered rockets may be the answer
- Space junk: Astronomers worry as private companies push ahead with satellite launches
- Want to learn how to survive on Mars? Look to Antarctica.
- How will astronauts poop on the moon? New NASA challenge aims to flush this mystery
- June 28
- June 27
- June 26
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- SpaceX delays launch of Starlink and BlackSky satellites for more rocket checks
- Spacewalking astronauts tackle battery upgrade at space station
- Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo aces 2nd glide flight over Spaceport America
- Pentagon should release UFO report, Senate intelligence committee argues
- A SpaceX rocket will launch Starlink and BlackSky satellites today. Here's how to watch.
- How to watch two astronauts spacewalk outside the International Space Station today
- 6 exomoons orbiting alien worlds? Well, it's complicated.
- Hubble telescope spots a flapping bat signal in space
- June 25
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- NASA teams with Japan, Europe for COVID-19 global impacts project
- Newfound 'super-Earth' exoplanets bear clues about atmospheres of alien worlds
- NASA names headquarters building for 'hidden figure' Mary Jackson
- Why is the far side of the moon so weird? Scientists may have solved a lunar mystery
- Newly discovered alien planet spotted zipping around highly active star
- SpaceX's 1st Crew Dragon for astronauts aces tests in space, could land Aug. 2
- June 24
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- Heat gave Jupiter's icy moon Europa layers. That may be good news for the search for life.
- Launch of NASA's next Mars rover delayed again by 'contamination concern' on the ground
- Candidate designs reviewed for 'Teacher in Space' Christa McAuliffe coin
- Axiom Space picks Thales Alenia to build commercial space station modules
- Relativity Space inks deals for California launch pad, Iridium satellite launches
- Scientists just sampled the most pristine air on Earth. Here's what they found.
- See a sunset on Uranus, other worlds (and a moon, too) in this NASA simulator
- Massive Saharan dust plume swirling across Atlantic Ocean spotted from space
- The monstrous 'blobs' near Earth's core may be even bigger than we thought
- June 23
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- Boom! SpaceX pops huge Starship SN7 test tank on purpose in pressure test (videos)
- Scientists just found the biggest neutron star (or smallest black hole) yet in a strange cosmic collision
- NASA inspector general looking into Boeing moon lander bid after input from agency official: report
- Join astrophysicist Joe Pesce in an AMA about the universe in our Space.com Forums!
- Why some physicists really think there's a 'mirror universe' hiding in space-time
- Don't expect NASA's 1st Artemis astronauts to drive on the moon in a fancy lunar car
- Foam 'spider webs' from tiny satellites could help clean up space junk
- China launches final Beidou satellite to complete GPS-like navigation system
- June 22
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- Virgin Galactic will work with NASA to train private astronauts for orbital spaceflights
- NASA wants to send astronauts on private suborbital spaceflights
- Astronaut-aquanaut connects with space station after deep sea dive
- See the moon's shadow on Earth from the 'ring of fire' solar eclipse in amazing space views
- Surprise! Pluto may have had an underground ocean from the very beginning
- Zodiacal Light meets the Milky Way in stunning night sky photo
- Our Milky Way galaxy may be teeming with ocean worlds
- Weirdly-shaped wormholes might work better than spherical ones
- Behold! Hubble telescope catches stunning photos of planetary nebula fireworks
- June 21
- June 20
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- 'Ring of fire' solar eclipse 2020: Here's how it works (and what to expect)
- Happy, summer solstice 2020! Google Doodle celebrates Earth's changing seasons
- Kathy Lueders, NASA's 1st female spaceflight chief, will guide a US return to the moon
- NASA's next Mars rover is just one month away from launch
- Astronomers Without Borders donate 16,000 solar eclipse glasses to Ethiopia for rare 'ring of fire' spectacle
- June 19
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- Summer solstice 2020 heralds changing of Earth's seasons this weekend
- Astronauts and NASA pay homage to Juneteenth
- The 'ring of fire' solar eclipse of 2020 occurs Sunday. Here's how to watch online.
- Death from above? Fireball may have destroyed ancient Syrian village
- Newborn star's X-rays shine light on our solar system's early days
- China reveals details of next-gen crew spacecraft's 1st test flight
- June 18
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- NASA needs your help teaching its Curiosity rover how to drive on Mars
- 4,000 comets! Sun-watching spacecraft's discoveries keep piling up
- 'Space Crew' wants you to defend Earth against aliens (and you can try it free right now)
- NASA has built a helicopter to explore Mars and it's finally ready to launch
- Neptune's weird moon Triton could get a visit from a NASA spacecraft called Trident
- Vice President Pence congratulates history-making NASA astronauts in call to space station
- NASA says SpaceX can reuse Crew Dragon capsules and rockets on astronaut missions: report
- June 17
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- NASA's next Mars rover carries tribute to healthcare workers fighting coronavirus
- Einstein's core idea about gravity just passed an extreme, whirling test in deep space
- Is the Milky Way harboring dozens of intelligent alien civilizations?
- Nonbinary astronomers need better support from their field, study finds
- Watch Venus play 'peekaboo' with the crescent moon Friday morning
- Mysterious 'fast radio bursts' fire rhythmically through the cosmos, study finds
- Charles Bolden, NASA's first Black administrator, speaks out on systemic racism
- Mysterious blue fireball streaks above Western Australia, puzzling astronomers
- UAE seeks new astronauts to expand human spaceflight program
- SpaceX wants to build an offshore spaceport near Texas for Starship Mars rocket
- New map reveals just how enormous the supergiant star Antares really is
- June 16
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- See Earth and Venus from Mars in amazing photos from NASA's Curiosity rover
- Astronauts may return to 'Fortnite' in Chapter 2 Season 3
- China postpones launch of Beidou global navigation satellite
- Shuttle-flown solid rocket segments arrive in Florida for Artemis 1 SLS rocket
- Mystery solved: Odd bright patches on Saturn moon Titan are dry lake beds
- Black hole caught spewing jets into space at nearly the speed of light (video)
- Rare quadruplet 'top quarks' created at world's largest atom smasher
- Does Planet Nine really exist?
- China's Chang'e 4 moon rover mission is back in action on lunar farside
- June 15
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- Weird green glow spotted in atmosphere of Mars
- Solar Orbiter spacecraft makes its 1st flyby of the sun
- NASA lit a fire in space to keep future astronauts safe (video)
- Space, Race and Reality (Op-Ed)
- The International Space Station is getting a new toilet this year
- How the coronavirus pandemic can help us prepare for an asteroid impact
- Subsurface vortexes could be behind Saturn's mysterious hexagon
- June 14
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- June 12
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- See Mars rise with the 'half' moon early Saturday morning
- Bill Nye and former astronaut Leland Melvin talk racial injustice and space exploration (video)
- China launches Haiyang 1D satellite to monitor Earth's oceans
- You can watch a launch triple header from SpaceX, Rocket Lab and Japan tonight. Here's how.
- NASA taps commercial crew chief Kathy Lueders to lead human spaceflight office
- The first all-female 45th Weather Squadron will watch over SpaceX's Starlink launch Saturday
- 'Looking at an alien sky': New Horizons probe sees shifted star positions (photos)
- SpaceX will launch 58 Starlink satellites, 3 Planet SkySats Saturday. Here's how to watch.
- Dusty alien planets could be more likely to harbor life, study suggests
- Yes, there's ice on the moon. But it's not the 1st lunar resource we'll use.
- June 11
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- NASA delays launch of Mars rover Perseverance to July 20
- Dramatic SpaceX video shows what happens when a rocket's nose cone pops off
- Another delay: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope won't launch in March 2021
- SpaceX's 1st Crew Dragon astronauts settle into life at the space station
- NASA picks Astrobotic to land ice-hunting VIPER rover at the moon's south pole
- Rocket Lab to launch satellites for US spysat agency and NASA Saturday. Here's how to watch.
- Huge magnetic spots may explain weird light patterns of super-hot stars
- Virtual reality will be a big part of Boeing's Starliner astronaut training
- NASA recruits NFL football players for space-y internships (video)
- Scientists create exotic, fifth state of matter on space station to explore the quantum world
- June 10
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- Physicists entangle 15 trillion hot atoms
- Titan is drifting away from Saturn 100 times faster than we thought
- Mars rock layers swirl in gorgeous crater photo
- Astronomers and SpaceX coming together to make Starlink megaconstellation less disruptive to science
- Scientists use lasers to create miniature supernova shock waves on Earth
- New SpaceX spacesuits get five-star rating from NASA astronauts
- June 9
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- Mars' moon Phobos looks like cosmic candy in these NASA photos
- Tropical Storm Cristobal captured in astronaut, satellite imagery
- NASA sun observatory spies Comet Atlas in the solar wind. (Mercury, too!)
- 'Strawberry Moon' lunar eclipse treats skywatchers around the world (photos)
- How Borgs, Vulcans and doctors showed diversity on 'Star Trek: Voyager'
- Scientists condemn racism and take action with #StrikeforBlackLives this week
- Why a physicist wants to build a particle collider on the moon
- Half the matter in the universe was missing. Scientists just found it hiding in the cosmos.
- The most amazing photos of SpaceX's historic 1st astronaut launch for NASA
- June 8
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- Jupiter and Saturn form a triangle with the moon tonight. Here's how to see it.
- NASA astronaut Victor Glover explains why sometimes we can't just stick to space
- Brilliant fireball lights up skies over Tennessee (video)
- Astronaut Kathy Sullivan is first woman to dive to deepest point on Earth
- NASA spacecraft swoops down low over asteroid Bennu to eye sampling site
- The 1st stars in the universe formed earlier than thought
- Satellite sees 'Black Lives Matter' message from space (photo)
- Mysterious deep-space flashes repeat every 157 days
- June 7
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- June 5
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- Record breaker! Briefcase-size satellite spots alien planet
- Stadium-size asteroid will safely fly by Earth tonight
- Satellites spot major oil spill in the Arctic Circle (photos)
- Eclipse season 2020 has arrived! Catch 2 lunar eclipses and a 'ring of fire' this summer
- Biggest space movies to watch in 2020
- Here's what scientists heard when Mercury-bound BepiColombo flew past Earth
- Trump's 'Make Space Great Again' ad was like nothing we've ever seen
- SpaceX Crew Dragon docking depicted on new Houston postmark
- Strawberry Moon lunar eclipse of 2020 occurs today. Here's what to expect.
- The rings of Saturn are 'ringing' like a bell
- The 'mole' on Mars is finally underground after a push from NASA's InSight lander
- Trump campaign pulls 'Make Space Great Again' video that may have violated NASA regulations
- June 4
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- Astronauts 'capture the flag' for SpaceX in race to reach space station
- Ancient explosion in Milky Way's core lit up gas outside the galaxy
- Happy birthday, Falcon 9! SpaceX's workhorse rocket debuted 10 years ago today
- Visit the Milky Way's supermassive black hole with 'Galactic Center VR' visualization (video)
- The effect of 'Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back' can still be felt after 40 years
- SpaceX launches 60 Starlink satellites and lands rocket in dazzling nighttime liftoff
- June 3
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- Astronomers turn back time to solve Einstein ring mystery
- Life on Mars? Meet the new rover built to give us the answer
- SpaceX to launch 60 Starlink satellites for megaconstellation tonight. Here's how to watch.
- Pulsar caught binging on star before brilliant x-ray blast
- NASA's SpaceX launch is not the cure for racial injustice on Earth
- Martian moon's orbit suggests the Red Planet had a ring
- Earth from space: 'Overview effect' could help troubled country, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson says
- SpaceX rocket returns to shore after historic astronaut launch (photos)
- June 2
- June 1
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- 'The trampoline is working!' The story behind Elon Musk's one-liner at SpaceX's big launch
- Mysterious 'Fermi Bubbles' may be the result of black hole indigestion 6 million years ago
- Why does SpaceX's historic astronaut flight for NASA have two commanders?
- How close can you get to a black hole?
- Fiery meteor that doomed the dinosaurs struck at 'deadliest possible' angle
- How heavy is the universe? Conflicting answers hint at new physics.
